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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, September 18, 1979
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Message Verification
This WATS phone service can also be used to verify the authenticity of a
message phoned to you by the National Phone Network. You simply tell the
WATS operator you wish to confirm the most recent National Phone Network
message, and give the identification code.
Call Ai'\JY TIME to verify a "Priority l" message--and only during the hours
of 8-5, Pasadena time, to confirm "Priority 2, 3, or 4" messages phoned
to you.
This Hotline service will be suspended for the Feast period between Monday,
October 1st to Friday, October 19th (inclusive).
Any further questions about this telephone service should be directed to
Kevin Dean, (213) 577-5186.
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
FEAST SITES DA...1'1AGED BY HURRICANES
Recently, three Feast of Tabernacles sites have been severely threatened
by hurricanes! Savannah, St. Petersburg and Biloxi have all faced expo
sure to these dreaded storms. St. Petersburg escaped, but Savannah and
Biloxi experienced darnage--threatening our observance of the Feast of
Tabernacles in those areas.
Savannah
Hurricane David hit the Savannah area September 5. The Savannah Mayor
John P. Rousakis sai� ''We expected the worst and were grateful that there
were no fatalities. David was no gentleman. He was mean, but not devas
tating."
Savannah had looked Hurricane David in the eye and survived. Most of the
complications were power blackouts, telephone service failure and dangling
live electrical wires. About 60,000 homes were without electricity and
an estimated 90 homes in the surrounding area were damaged by falling
trees.
All of the motels reserved in the area survived, so, everyone's housing
reservations in the area remain undisturbed. The storm damaged about
4,000 square feet of roofing on the Civic Center building which we use
for Festival services, causing water to gush into the theater balcony and
orchestra pit. However, the Chamber of Commerce has assured us that this
damage is being fully repaired and will in no wise affect our services or
activities there.
Biloxi
This area was hit by Hurricane Frederic on September 12--exactly 10 years
to the day that the same area was devastated by Hurricane Camille. When
Frederic hit Biloxi, it was a more severe storm than David was at the time
it struck Savannah. The auditorium survived undamaged, but we have lost
the use of several motels in the Biloxi area.
The area just to the east of Biloxi, including Mobile, Alabama, received
the worst destruction from the storm. Only one of the motels we have lost